Antigua's literary fest continues to grow.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YOU'RE AS LIKELY TO bump into award-winning science fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson as you are New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. Such is the drawing power of the Antigua and Barbuda International Literary Festival, only three years young this November. It may have...

Masses for peace & sobriety celebrated in 125 RP parishes.
Some 125 parishes, including 65 in Metro Manila, yesterday celebrated masses for peace and sobriety sponsored by the local government units in towns and cities throughout the country. It was an outpouring of support for the leadership of President Arroyo, Mayor Ramon Guico, president of the Union...

Paises do istmo e a comunidade caribenha negociam TLC.
Os 15 países que compõem a Comunidade do Caribe reuniram-se com as equipes de negociadores de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicarágua e Panamá, para alcançar um tratado de livre comércio. (AméricaEconomía.com.br) A reunião realizada em Trinidad e Tobago, contou com representantes dos 15 países membros da Comunidade...

CARICOM single market and economy charts destiny: progressing beyond a common market, members in this group of Caribbean nations are implementing economic integration and cooperative development, leading to a greater variety and better production of goods and services.
SINCE EARLY TIMES, THE CARIBBEAN ECONOMY was made up of separate island economies, competing rather than cooperating with each other for the same markets and investments. In 1968, in a first attempt at economic integration, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana established the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA),...

Montserrat Gines. The Southern Inheritors of Don Quixote.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-2651-9. In The Southern Inheritors of Don Quixote, Montserrat Ginés seeks to examine the literary legacy that Don Quixote has left on the prose of the American South in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. One aspect...

Living with the Unexpected: Linking Disaster recovery to Sustainable Development in Montserrat.
Living with the Unexpected: Linking Disaster recovery to Sustainable Development in Montserrat. By ANIA K. POSSEKEL Berlin: Springer, 1999, 287 pp. [pound]65.00 ISBN 3 540 65709 6 Living with the Unexpected is an interesting attempt to examine the continuing volcanic emergency on the Caribbean island...

Treaties of Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters involve U.S.
Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaties (MLATs) are a relatively recent and valuable development. These bilateral agreements seek to improve the effectiveness of international judicial assistance and to regularize and facilitate criminal law enforcement procedures in all the member states. Each country designates a Central Authority, generally the...

The birdman of St. Lucia.
A few kilometers down a dense rainforest trail that winds through the mountainous interior of St. Lucia, the man who would save parrots seems, briefly, to have become one. Here, on a narrow pathway contoured into the edge of a fern-smothered hilltop, Englishman Paul Butler holds both...

Eugene 7th-grader wins geography bee.
Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard Eugene seventh-grader Sam Brandt knows his place in the world. And a few others. The 12-year-old brandished his geographic prowess to win the 16th annual Oregon Geographic Bee at Western Oregon University in Monmouth. Competing in...

Labouring the point: the past five years have seen a flurry of immigration activity in the UK, as nearly a million people came to work here. Is there cause for concern?
The demonisation of migrants has been so powerful that it's important to begin by emphasising that there are four markedly different types of immigrant in Britain today. First, there are the skilled workers who arrive here under the official work-permit scheme. The government highlights fields suffering employee shortages, producing...